“Reading and writing are acts of empathy and faith. Guard that trust carefully — in this rapidly changing business, it’s the only sure thing.” ~Erin Keane

"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in." ~ Louise Brown

"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." ~Jesse Stuart

"A writer's job is to take one thing and make it stand for twenty." ~ Virginia Woolf

Monday, January 9, 2012

Wanted: Authors with Books to Sell

Celerytree.com launched in November, had a tryout during the holidays, and is now ready to go after it big time. Go after what you ask? Authors! Published authors with books to sell. Preferably print books, because although we have an ebookstore, Amazon's new KDP Select program is going to take a toll on it and all other online ebookstores everywhere. I post about that new development here.

But never mind, because Celerytree.com is an online village bookstore where you can purchase print books too, and support authors while doing so. Celery Tree gives 90% of sales to the author or publisher rather than taking the huge cut that some other online stores *cough Amazon cough* take.

If you want to learn more about Celery Tree during our Big Blog Tour, stop by these blogs and get in on the action! I'll be linking to each one daily as we go, and giving tidbits of information along the way. Also, I'll be standing by at karen@celerytree.com during the Blog Tour to respond to any questions you may have as you navigate the site.

I have let one author friend of mine know about celetree.com. I will let the diabetes nurse/educator who runs our support group here know as well when I see her later this month. She writes and has published mysteries and I think spiritual or Christian books when she is not helping all of us diabetics in town.

Many thanks to all of you who are helping to get the word out! I really appreciate it. I also am so grateful for those bloggers whose names you see on this list of events, because I can't imagine how dull it would be if it was me doing all the talking about Celery Tree!

Very exciting stuff ! And thanks again Karen for Uncut Diamonds. I am rereading as I am studying dialog and best methods. I meant to read just a page or two of talk between the sisters and there I was 20 pages in a book I had already read!

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